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I'm actually surprised Claude was about to do that much. I hadn't even considered handing it a visual mockup to work from. Event though that workflow is par for the course for any …

Major nitpick: ARK is not a hedge fund but an ETF. My understanding is that it tracks an actively managed list of public stocks. I'm sure it's not much consolation, but "actual" he…

You're right. Cathie Wood's ARK is all about "disruptive innovation". It's no surprise to see the fund falling after tech. stocks were so grossly inflated. As an investment strateg…

Is this about the old DEC Alpha?

Microsoft offering the Windows ISO for download is a recent addition. If you had to restore a PC 10 years ago, your only options were to obtain a restore disk from the PC manufactu…

Independent discovery don't happen overnight. Intel must have been aware of these vulnerabilities for some time. edit: I'm sure everyone involved acted responsibly. I'm just curiou…

For the cloud providers it's the security of the hypervisor that's at stake.

How is Uber any different than taking a taxi to the hospital?

Wasn't Verisign the very first CA business? How the mighty have fallen!

I doesn't say but this is for the Mac.

Mozilla's donation page says: We are proudly non-profit, non-corporate. I don't know the ins and out of Mozilla dual identity as a foundation/corporation. But it'd be unsettling to…

Never mind how it's pronounced. No developers in their right mind would automate Excel from their web server the way they did in that demo!

Gmail greats us with a loading indicator like that.

Let's hope that makes it to the standard. Begin & end arguments are distasteful boilerplate (safe for these few times when you need a subrange or pointer pair)

TLDR; The author of malloc and std::vector never talked to each other. We fixed that! ... also most types are memmovables

That makes freedom of speech more of a religion than a philosophy.

What is that suppose to mean? NULL pointer bugs are the realm of idiots? Is there a more troubling reference in here that I just don't get?

That makes a lot of sense. Not solving this earlier is a detriment to the customers of both companies.

They're probably just experimenting at that point.

What do you think made C such an amazing language compared to say Pascal and Fortrant? I like C and how it handles pointers and arrays but was it really such a departure from what …

Do you have to provide all that info just to get a prepaid plan? Can a tourist get a SIM card in the US?

When taping a link, couldn't the browser start to load the page in the background even though the gesture may turn out to be a double-tap.

> if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.

Why not? TacoCopter sparked a lot of discussion about drone delivery just a while ago. It's nice to be reminded of it, now. It just goes to shows these ideas are "in the air" right…

Here's a reformatted copy of the article (no lightbox): http://ajasmin.net/saved_page/an-engineers-emergency-kit-bus... I really like the concept. Time to to make my own PCB busine…